R*@#^d Ann, huh?
Maybe it’s because I was, at least in the first six or seven years of my life on this planet, a “slow learner” and had to spend Grades One and…
2012
The Evil Face of the Republican Party
From AlterNet –
The End of the Road for Mitch Romney?
A Massachusetts court has unsealed the transcripts of a 20-year old divorce case between the CEO of Staples and his wife that could spell the end of Mitch Romney’s chances…
Justice Delayed, Justice Denied in Etobicoke Centre
Today the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that the law governing Canada’s elections is less important than the principle of elections: that everyone has the right to vote, even if…
The Wages of Sin Are Hard to Spend, Or Why the Bad Guys Have Casches of Cash
What you see to the left is part of the cash that Guy Suprenant, the Montreal engineer who accept wads of money for boosting payments to dishonest contractors, turned over…
Time the NDP Came Clean on Dirty Fracking, Gas-Powered LNG Plants
In a breathtaking turnaround, Premier Clark has decided that when natural gas power is used to concentrate natural gas into a liquefied form it is no longer a nasty old…
A Canadian Tests America’s Citizens United Decision
Meet Canadian businessman, V. Prem Watsa. He’s the founder, CEO, Chairman and 45% shareholder of Fairfax Financial, a Canadian insurance and investment management company. Fairfax, in turn, owns a Connecticut…
Del Mastro thinks some folks on the interweb thingy….
… are, ahem, lacking in civility. Yup, can’t argue with that. But. Seriously. Mr. Del Mastro. This is coming from a government MP whose party has been the LEAST civil…
Appeal rights from arbitration awards may be varied by contract
Patton-Casse v. Casse, 2012 ONCA 709 is a source for the principle that the rights of appeal from arbitrations can be varied by prior agreement: The appeal judge correctly identified…
Smoking Pot is Really Bad for You Except When It’s Good
Blame UCLA professor Don Tashkin for the confusion. Tashkin, a professor of pulmonology at the David Geffin School of Medicine, has been “the guy” on the perils of pot smoking…
Today’s Chuckles from the Times-Colonist
Big story in this morning’s Times-Colonist headlined “Severed head found in Edmonton alley; link to body probed.” Apparently the Edmonton police are trying to figure out if there’s any possible…
The Austerity Trap
Below is a recent editorial from the New York Times that does an excellent job of summarizing the failures of austerity policies. The NYTimes also published a very good analysis…
The Problem with 2C. We Won’t Believe It Until We Break It.
The goal is to limit global warming to 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. Go beyond that, we’re told, and we risk triggering natural feedback mechanisms, essentially runaway global warming.…
Oct. 25: Things happened in the world….
…but not in the pages of The Moncton Times and Transcript. One job of an editor is to go over reports, news items, to have a strong sense of what’s…
Wait a Minute! I Thought Buddhists Were Pacifists.
Turns out that Buddhists are quite ready to drop the gloves when it comes to Muslims muscling in on their turf. Riots have been sweeping western Burma lately. A few…
Good News For Griffintown Horse Palace
MONTRÉAL – mercredi 24 octobre 2012 (english below) – L’avenir du Horse Palace de Griffintown semble mieux assuré avec l’annonce jeudi dernier de l’intention de la Ville de Montréal d’acheter…
Donald Trump Offers $5 Million To Charity Of Obama’s Choice – Stephen Colbert Counter Offers Trump $1 Million To ……..
Donald Trump Offers Obama $5 Million Dollar Challenge Stephen Colbert Counter Offers Trump $1M
Conrad Black: No Order of Canada for him
How can that happen? I thought his buddy Harper would have helped him to reinstate his honours. Read full story here.
Will this Setback the Future of Altnerative Energy in the U.S.?
Drill, baby, drill. We’ve heard of America’s natural gas bounty realized by extensive fracking. Overlooked, however, is the success of fracking in U.S. oil production. The Associated Press reports the…